A new job opening appeared in the Blizzard Careers website for a Diablo Immortal Lead Artist. Apply here.
The closing date for this job is September 9, 2020 — which suggests an urgency to fill this position within a planned time-frame.
The last time the Diablo Immortal page in Google Play had been updated was October 30, 2018 in preparation for BlizzCon 2018 (2 days later).
At the r/DiabloImmortal Discord channel, Gayardos alerted that the page now says it was last updated on August 24, 2020 — yesterday.
Amazon Games announced a publishing agreement with Korean-based studios: Smilegate. The press release doesn’t mention Lost Ark in specific, but with the RPG game coming to Beta in Russia and Japan this year, it won’t be surprising to want to expand into the west.
Redditor ArcTriumvirate posted sighting of a Demo Reel by Samuel Alicea (senior texture and lookdev artist at Blizzard Entertainment).
Very good find considering this is the first time Samuel Alicea shares his work online, and he promises to share more characters in the future:
This is a compilation of my work in recent years. I have a lot more to upload and I’ll be doing some breakdowns and turntables on separate posts for the different characters. There’s a lot of them! I specialize on both Texture Painting and Look Development. This is also the first time I post any of my work online, ever!
Samuel Alicea
The Diablo Immortal team wants a Senior Sound Designer to develop music and sound assets for the mobile game.
After the August 4 update, by Wyatt Cheng, we learned that Diablo Immortal had reached the milestone of entering the internal company-wide playtest phase.
That means that Diablo Immortal is now playable by members of the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo 4, Hearthstone, and Classic Games teams; as well as satellite offices: Texas, New York, Shanghai, Taipei, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Sydney, and Tokyo.
A few days ago, Rod Fergusson (Diablo Franchise Development vice-president/executive producer) tweeted a job opening for a Business Performance Senior Director. A very interesting position for a game dubbed “Not Blizzard Soon™” at BlizzCon. (Thanks, Corey)
NetEase completely missed the opportunity to talk about Diablo Immortal during their NetEase Q2 2020 Earnings Call earlier today at 7:30am EST.
Wyatt Cheng recently posted an update on Diablo Immortal to announce the impending Diablo Immortal company-wide internal playtest among employees around the world.
A few days ago, lead designer Wyatt Cheng revealed that Diablo Immortal Internal Testing would begin in upcoming weeks.
On Tuesday, August 11 at 6:50am — a Reddit Discord member that goes by the nickname SnowTyrant posted a cryptic message and left for over 24 hours that had us speculating what he meant: “I heard some whispers… Tomorrow is a BIG day.”
Diablo III Community manager Filthyrich communicates that in Season 21 starting today you will earn two Horadric Caches from Bounties instead of one — until the end of the Season.
PTR testing in the future will last two weeks until further notice. Thanks, Corey.
